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Digital Britain report panned by Tories, experts
News The Digital Britain report has drawn criticism from politicians and technology experts over its proposals for dealing with fibre rollouts and illegal file-sharing. Hunt also pointed out that Digital Britain announced 12 new consultations, and...
[June 17, 2009, 16:09]
Digital Britain report delayed?
Blog The government has said that the Digital Britain report may be delayed, and has confirmed timing for when Lord Carter will step down. The Digital Britain report, which is expected to recommend greater broadband access for the whole of the UK, was...
[June 12, 2009, 17:56]
Interim Digital Britain report: First impressions
Blog We will, by the time of the final Digital Britain Report, have considered the value for money case for whether public incentives have a part to play in enabling further next generation broadband deployment, beyond current market-led initiatives.
[January 29, 2009, 12:03]
Digital Britain report delayed
Blog Comment The delay has been reportedly delayed because Lord Carter had problems uploading the pdf version of the report, after several hours he realised that BT's upload speed was only 'upto' 384Kbps. Private Eye@
[June 14, 2009, 6:10]
Interim Digital Britain report: First impressions
Blog Comment If you want to deep link to any of the Action points, or any other paragraph in the Digital Britain interim report, you can do so by grabbing the URL of the appropriate paragraph in the (unofficially) commentable version of the document at...
[February 9, 2009, 10:50]
Interim Digital Britain report: First impressions
Blog Comment Which is partly why we've taken inspiration from the Power of Information Taskforce consultation and taken it upon ourselves to post a commentable upon version of the Digital Britain Interim Report: http://writetoreply.org/digitalbritain/
[February 6, 2009, 17:21]
Digital Britain phone levy not enough, says BT
News The fund was proposed by the government in Lord Carter's Digital Britain report, which was published last month. The Digital Britain recommendations are to be scrutinised by a Commons select committee, which will examine issues including the...
[July 2, 2009, 15:05]
Digital Britain recommends 'G Cloud' for gov't IT
News The newly published Digital Britain report has advocated that more government IT applications be moved to cloud computing. In its chapter eight section on procurement, the report says that cloud computing — in which a third party takes...
[June 17, 2009, 8:37]
Businesses urged to plan for Digital Britain
Blog We were talking about the possible effects on business of universal broadband access, as proposed in the Digital Britain report being written by Lord Carter. Nigel Brown, the lead for resilient telecommunications strategy at the Cabinet Office...
[April 28, 2009, 17:05]
Blunkett: Digital Britain will increase security risks
News The Digital Britain report, currently being prepared by communications minister Lord Carter, proposes that every home in Britain have broadband access by 2012. Former home secretary David Blunkett has warned of increased security risks around...
[April 28, 2009, 17:15]
Parliament to probe Digital Britain plan
News A parliamentary select committee is to check whether the recommendations proposed in the Digital Britain report are realistic, particularly those regarding broadband speed. Many of the government's recommendations in Lord Carter's Digital Britain...
[June 30, 2009, 12:47]
Report: Timms to take over Digital Britain helm
News Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the Digital Britain plan, according to a report in The Guardian. Reports of Lord Carter's departure emerged just prior to the release of his Digital Britain report, a...
[August 4, 2009, 12:13]
No next-gen broadband for 25-30pc of UK
Blog Communications minister Lord Carter, who is preparing the extensive Digital Britain report, has said that much of the country is unlikely to get high-speed, next-generation broadband. The interim Digital Britain report, which came out at the end of...
[April 22, 2009, 12:27]
Lord Carter on playing politics with Digital Britain
News Stephen Carter, the former communications minister who wrote the Digital Britain report while in government earlier this year, opened this year's IP Expo show in London with his first public appearance since leaving office.
[October 7, 2009, 13:07]
Government unveils Digital Britain delivery plan
News The plan, published on 13 August, 2009, sets out the governance structure for delivering the 70 key actions set out in the government's Digital Britain final report in June. Although the plan does not set out a timetable for achieving the aims of...
[August 17, 2009, 9:09]
BBC may help fund UK fibre rollout
News The interim Digital Britain report, published earlier this month, paves the way for 2Mbps broadband for all UK households and considers the question of how to finance the rollout of next-generation fibre networks.
[March 12, 2009, 11:05]
Digital Britain calls for 50p broadband levy
News Lord Carter presented his Digital Britain report on Tuesday Lord Carter's Digital Britain report, published on Tuesday, calls for a monthly 50p charge to be levied on all fixed copper lines, so as to fund the rollout of fibre-based next-generation...
[June 16, 2009, 18:02]
Ofcom may free up more room for mobile broadband
News The consultation follows Lord Carter's pledge to offer universal broadband access of up to 2Mbps by 2012 via fixed and wireless networks in the interim Digital Britain report. Carter's interim Digital Britain report states: "The government believes...
[February 16, 2009, 8:18]
MPs slam government over digital divide plans
News The report, from the same Trade and Industry select committee which last week attacked the government's attempts to open up BT's network, is hugely critical of the work being done to prevent a digital divide in Britain and is sceptical of how much...
[March 27, 2001, 12:23]
File-sharer crackdown could be expedited
Blog The measures in the Digital Britain report may evolve slightly," a spokesperson for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) told ZDNet UK on Monday. The issue of copyrighted material being shared online is already the subject of an...
[August 17, 2009, 15:46]
